I don’t really know where to start on this eco-friendly-fake…
I thought I was buying a bag of tortilla chips in a paper bag. I was so excited to see less plastic and opted-in to buying this specific bag of chips, only to have my heart broken and wrapped in the plastic film that it came with…
A bag similar to this one.
The brand doesn’t really matter, because it’s not about the singular brand of chips.
There are many brands that manufacture their chip bags like this one.
Anyway, I was annoyed with my purchase after my third meal of chip-n-dip, when I realized that my whole thought process that lead to this purchase was false.
I thought, “Oh they have the little chip window of plastic, but the rest is made of paper. So cool!”
But I was strongly mistaken by what the container was made of.
The chips inside were fault-proof, they tasted amazing, no doubt about it.
But the container that I thought to be made of paper, was in-fact, plastic.
It was a plastic bag sealed to the inside of a paper bag.
Plastic-wrapped-paper.
(insert the biggest eye roll you could image here).
Here’s some photos of my empty bag. Although I was going to compost it after use, I just threw it in the trash along with everything else…
Paper doesn’t shine like that. You might image how annoyed and disappointed I was when I realized what was truly shining in my chip bag.
One may start an argument saying: “Well at least they use less plastic and used paper instead!” To which I would reply:
Okay, but they still used two different materials when they could have prevented the waste of one or the other by selecting just one instead, and not two…
It may seem petty of me, and if you’re reading to this point of the article you already know I’m at the point of ranting, but using two different materials instead of just one is simply wasteful.
At this point, I’d opt-in for the plastic bag of chips, because then it would be created with only one material, not two!
And you’re probably thinking, “Just be grateful the food was good and didn’t have bugs in it.” I am grateful, and I understand why companies do this, to keep the oil from the chips from seeping through the bag and making them look undesirable.
I get it, it’s a logical way to package chips.
I just wish that by packaging it in paper, that it was completely packaged in paper, and not shielding a complete plastic bag inside of it.
This item wasn’t labeled as “plastic-free”, which should have been my first indicator. But you know, I can be a curious and gullible shopper at the grocery store. And I can make assumptions when I pick out items.
Just ask yourself this:
If you saw this kind of bag, would you assume that there was a whole plastic bag lining the inside of it?
Thank you for humoring me and my frustrations with commercial plastic production. Feel free to rant out your frustrations with this article or anything else in the comments below.
